29 May 2012

Brad Love Convicted

One of Paulie's buddies, Brad Love, has apparently been convicted on, "all 7 counts of 'breach of probation" yesterday. Brad Love is known for harassing groups and individuals he, for some reason or another, isn't pleased with.

We'll post more about this soon, but in the meantime, the wild histrionics of Paul Fromm:

NEWMARKET, May 28, 2012. Will the Canadian judicial system send an
inveterate letter-writer back to prison for expressing his opinions in apparent
contravention of a judge's probation order that might have served as a model for
the Red Chinese for silencing dissent? The answer must wait until a sentencing
hearing on Friday, July 13.

Former political prisoner Brad Love was
convicted on all seven counts today in provincial court this morning for breach
of probation. Two of the charges dealt with failure to report in person to his
probation officer in Ontario after Mr. Love moved to Alberta to take a job in
the oilpatch in the Spring of 2006. However, five of the charges dealt with
packages of material Mr. Love had mailed to the York University Students' Union,
Hillel, the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish
Congress in conjunction with End Israeli Apartheid Week in March,
2008.

The charges stemmed from a February 13, 2006 order by now retired
Mr. Justice Hogg who ordered three years probation for the letter-writing
dissident. One condition, that effectively gagged Mr. Love from expressing his
political opinions, ordered Mr. Love not to send any material by mail, FAX,
electronically or in person to anyone, except by request. Thus, even a letter of
complaint to a credit card company for a disputed charge might be a
breach.

Madam Justice Kelly Wright rejected Mr. Love's evidence that he
had called the five groups and said he'd read some of their recent views and
asked for permission to send them his own. All, he testified, gave him
permission. However, the judge stretched the words of the ruling even further
and ruled "permission would have to have been directed to him perersonally. In
his calls he did not provide his name or a description of the type of material
he would be sending."

One observer in Court commented after the judgement
that the judge had "bared her fangs" today.

She said: "I am unable to
place any weight on Mr. Love's evidence." She denounced his manner, "his
disrespect of court and the justice system, his attitude of
impertinence."

While noting that "the content of the material [sent by
Mr. Love to Hillel] is not relevant," she immediately denounced it as "offensive
and anti-Semitic."

The Crown indicated she'd be seeking a prison
sentence. A pre-sentencing report will be prepared and the case goes back to
Court July 13 for a sentencing hearing.

Mr. Love was first convicted
under Canada's notorious "hate law" (Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code) in 2003 for
sending non-violent letters critical of immigration to some 20 politicians. His
parole conditions were successively tightened from not writing to those 20
politicians, to not writing to any elected official, to Mr. Justivce Hogg's
ferocious prohibition against writing to anyone, presumably even his own
friends, without their express consent.

Outside the Court a disgusted
Paul Fromm of the Canadian Association for Free Expression, which has championed
Mr. Love in his eight year ordeal, said: "A couple of weeks ago the press
featured wall to wall coverage of Chen Guangcheng the blind Chinese dissident
who was being kept under house arrest for his outspoken political views. The
press cheered as he somehow managed to scale a six-foot wall, walk several miles
to meet an associate to be spirited away and then seek shelter at the U.S.
Embassy in Peking."

"Yet, the Canadian press has studiously ignored Mr.
Love's plight," Mr. Fromm charged. "Once again as free speech is being
butchered," the press is nowhere to be found. There is no difference between Mr.
Chen and Brad Love. Both men have criticized politically powerful elements in
their society and both have suffered punishment and state efforts to gag and
silence them."

"Somehow," Mr. Fromm, who has told the Brad Love story to
incredulous U.S. audiences, concluded, "our press finds it easier to expose and
denounce the silencing of dissent when it occurs on the other side of the world
than when it occurs right here at home."

We still find it really weird that, in writing his own articles, Paulie quotes himself as an authority. Ego much?

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